The stupid portal had opened from the stupid book from the stupid shelf in the stupid library quickly. Too quickly for Carmilla to even utter a sound before it snapped back closed. Then there was nothing. No portal. No you.

She tried opening and closing it. Reading it. Threatening. Putting her blood on the pages. Throwing it. Threatening it even more. Even reshelving it and pulling it from the shelf as you had.

Nothing.

So she resigned herself to sitting and staring a hole into it until a new plan came to mind.

"I tell you not to mess with any of the books...and you go reading one..." She growled to herself.